THE TOP 120 MOVIES OF ALL TIME BASED ON CRITICS' POLLS

This list is pretty comprehensive.  It is compiled from Sight and Sound's 2002 and 1992 polls of 253 and 233 critics, scholars, and filmmakers, respectively, Positif's 2002 poll, the Village Voice's 1999 poll of 50 critics, Time Out's 1995 poll of 63 critics, a list compiled from the online group Cinemasters, and a ranking based on how many times a movie made the top 10 lists of all 500+ people polled.  Each film's final ranking is based on a formula taking each poll into account, each poll getting greater weight as the number of voters increase and less weight the older a poll is. Here are the results listing ranking, title, year of release, director, and how each film performed in the respective polls.  Note that ties appear frequently among individual polls.

	Tile	Year	Director	Cinemasters '03	Sight & Sound '02	Positif '02 (top 40 only)	Village Voice '99	Time Out '95	Sight & Sound '92	All Individuals' Lists Combined
1	Citizen Kane	1941	Welles	3	1	1	1	1	1	1
2	The Rules of the Game	1939	Renoir	5	3	1	2	3	2	2
3	Vertigo	1958	Hitchcock	2	2	2	3	4	4	3
4	2001: A Space Odyssey	1968	Kubrick	1	6	1	11	37	10	4
5	8 1/2	1963	Fellini	9	4	3		15	5	5
6	The Seven Samurai	1954	Kurosawa	23	9	27	23	5	12	7
7	The Searchers	1956	Ford	30	14	13	4	20	9	8
8	Tokyo Story	1953	Ozu	64	8		36	9	3	8
9	Singin' in the Rain	1952	Kelly; Donen	20	12	40	73	57	14	10
10	Sunrise	1927	Murnau	8	13		6	80	20	11
11	Touch of Evil	1958	Welles	11	19	13	55	8	28	13
12	The Godfather, Part II	1974	Coppola	36	5	20	31	2	16	16
13	The Godfather	1972	Coppola	29	7		12	2	20	15
14	Battleship Potemkin	1925	Eisenstein		11		79	28	10	6
15	L'Atalante	1934	Vigo		25		7	10	5	12
16	The Passion of Joan of Arc	1928	Dreyer	42	16		8	66	7	13
17	The General	1927	Keaton	83	28		32	31	20	20
18	Rashomon	1951	Kurosawa		10		10	66	25	18
19	La Dolce Vita	1960	Fellini		17	10		20	25	32
20	Raging Bull	1980	Scorsese	47	23			7	7	16
21	Children of Paradise	1945	Carne		32			13	20	21
22	City Lights	1931	Chaplin	45	35		38	80	16	18
23	L'Avventura	1960	Antonioni		21	13		88	33	22
24	Jules and Jim	1961	Truffaut	13	22				33	22
25	Bicycle Thieves	1948	De Sica		18		37		14	27
26	Grand Illusion	1937	Renoir	21	33			49	33	22
27	The Third Man	1949	Reed	57	44		30	49	28	22
28	Pather Panchali	1955	Ray		37		13	60	12	27
29	Ugetsu Monogatari	1953	Mizoguchi	65	43	20	29	88	41	35
30	Contempt	1963	Godard	40	42	4	49		41	31
31	Lawrence of Arabia	1962	Lean		15			6	41	42
32	Wild Strawberries	1957	Bergman		50	13			25	29
33	The Magnificent Ambersons	1942	Welles	43	64		25	15	50	26
34	Some Like It Hot	1959	Wilder		29	27		23	50	51
35	Andrei Rublev	1966	Tarkovsky		33				20	34
36	A bout de souffle	1959	Godard		19			32	28	51
37	Apocalypse Now	1979	Coppola	90	40	10		17	33	47
38	Taxi Driver	1976	Scorsese	6	38		34	23		33
39	Modern Times	1936	Chaplin		56		67		16	30
40	The Night of the Hunter	1955	Laughton	26	89	6	35	11	50	35
41	Fanny and Alexander	1983	Bergman		30	10		88	33	64
42	Psycho	1960	Hitchcock		26		20		61	47
43	Ordet	1955	Dreyer	74	52		17	85	50	40
44	Intolerance	1916	Griffith		52		18	72	28	45
45	Persona	1966	Bergman	91	58	4		66	61	35
46	Casablanca	1942	Curtiz	22	46			80		35
47	The Conformist	1970	Bertolucci	45	58		58	12	41	54
48	Ivan the Terrible	1944	Eisenstein		47				50	47
49	Sunset Blvd.	1950	Wilder	31	27		45			51
50	North by Northwest	1959	Hitchcock	44	57		51	17	73	45
51	Chinatown	1974	Polanski	14	45		21	19		59
52	Mirror	1974	Tarkovsky		31	13		88	33	87
53	M	1931	Lang	81	49		22			42
54	Rio Bravo	1959	Hawks	51	65	27		32	61	62
55	Greed	1924	Stroheim	80	65		28	66	73	40
56	Barry Lyndon	1975	Kubrick	50	55	7	46	88		59
57	Pierrot le Fou	1965	Godard	69	95	27	81	40	33	35
58	The Gold Rush	1925	Chaplin		72		50	49	61	42
59	The Seventh Seal	1956	Bergman		38		33	88	61	73
60	Rear Window	1954	Hitchcock	56	68			26	41	54
61	Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb	1964	Kubrick	86	24			57	93	68
62	Au Hasard, Balthazar	1966	Bresson		36		9			54
63	The Man with a Movie Camera	1928	Vertov	97	63		5		61	59
64	The 400 Blows	1959	Truffaut		51		47	42		54
65	Sansho the Bailiff	1954	Mizoguchi	54	81	7		88		54
66	La Strada	1954	Fellini		62				16	79
67	The Wizard of Oz	1939	Fleming		77		15		50	64
68	My Darling Clementine	1946	Ford					37	41	47
69	Amarcord	1973	Fellini		60	40		66	73	94
70	The Earrings of Madame de...	1953	Ophuls		99	40	24		61	64
71	The Wild Bunch	1969	Peckinpah	61	72	40		22		73
72	Ikiru	1952	Kurosawa		84				41	68
73	Last Year at Marienbad	1962	Resnais		72	27		42		79
74	Nashville	1975	Altman		68				50	79
75	It's a Wonderful Life	1946	Capra	33	99		16	28		62
76	Blade Runner	1982	Scott	38	65			60		79
77	Pickpocket	1959	Bresson		77		61	49	50	91
78	Letter from an Unknown Woman	1948	Ophuls		95			42	33	73
79	Metropolis	1926	Lang		47		40			94
80	Viridiana	1961	Buñuel		89				61	68
81	Voyage in Italy	1953	Rossellini		84				50	73
82	The Apartment	1960	Wilder	15	41					118
83	L'Age d'Or	1930	Buñuel		68				73	87
84	Paisan	1946	Rossellini				70		28	79
85	Bringing Up Baby	1938	Hawks	10				42	93	73
86	Stagecoach	1939	Ford		99				50	73
87	The World of Apu	1959	Ray				54		73	68
88	Sherlock, Jr.	1924	Keaton	34	99		42			68
89	Blue Velvet	1986	Lynch	25				60		64
90	The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie	1972	Buñuel	59					73	79
91	Napoleon	1927	Gance		68			26		105
92	Notorious	1946	Hitchcock	59	99		80	72		79
93	The Lady Eve	1941	Sturges	28			57	42		94
94	Gertrud	1964	Dreyer						41	91
95	All About Eve	1950	Mankiewicz	84			77	37		79
96	Hiroshima, Mon Amour	1959	Resnais			7			93	87
97	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance	1962	Ford		81	20	60			105
98	The Decalogue	1988	Kieslowski	27	84					100
99	Stalker	1979	Tarkovsky						41	94
100	The Traveling Players	1975	Angelopoulos		81				43	100

And the 20 that did not quite make it...

	Title	Year	Director	Cinemasters '03	Sight & Sound '02	Positif '02 (top 40 only)	Village Voice '99	Time Out '95	Sight & Sound '92	All Individuals' Lists Combined
101	Aguirre: The Wrath of God	1972	Herzog				43		61	100
102	Aparajito	1956	Ray				54		73	100
103	The Band Wagon	1953	Minnelli			27				100
104	To Be or Not to Be	1942	Lubitsch						61	105
105	The Birth of a Nation	1915	Griffith				14		93	94
106	A Man Escaped	1956	Bresson	48			26			105
107	Nosferatu	1922	Murnau		99					94
108	Manhattan	1979	Allen	52						100
109	The Music Room	1958	Ray						61	105
110	The Exterminating Angel	1962	Buñuel			13			50	128
111	The Maltese Falcon	1941	Huston							91
112	Days of Heaven	1978	Malick	17						105
113	Monsieur Verdoux	1947	Chaplin						73	105
114	Chimes at Midnight	1966	Welles			40			93	105
115	Weekend	1967	Godard	39						105
116	Gone With the Wind	1939	Fleming					42	93	118
117	Vivre sa vie	1962	Godard		99		41			105
118	King Kong	1933	Cooper				39			105
119	Earth	1930	Dovzhenko					88		105
120	Los Olvidados	1951	Buñuel				69			105

Directors with 5 movies in the top 120: 
       Luis Buñuel
      Alfred Hitchcock

Directors with 4 movies in the top 120:
     Ingmar Bergman
    Charles Chaplin
     Federico Fellini
     John Ford

Directors with 3 movies in the top 120:
     Francis Ford Coppola
     Carl Theodor Dreyer
     Jean-Luc Godard
     Stanely Kubrick
     Akira Kurosawa